Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners
About the role
About the Role
Join the customer-facing engineering team at an AI company serving manufacturing and supply chain operations. You will build and deploy AI-powered workflows with customers, taking solutions from discovery through production and helping shape the deployment approach as the team grows.
What You'll Do
Work with customer IT, procurement, and supply chain teams to identify and scope new workflows and use cases.
Build and ship production code in customer environments, designing solutions that can scale across deployments.
Lead technical deployments from discovery through go-live and own outcomes such as inventory, sourcing efficiency, and forecast accuracy.
Travel to customer facilities, including internationally, to work alongside operators and support adoption.
Bring customer feedback and field learnings to platform engineering to improve future deployments.
What We're Looking For
One to five years of customer-facing full-stack or forward-deployed engineering experience, with a strong software engineering foundation.
Experience owning customer deployments and shipping production systems in enterprise environments at a growth-stage technology company.
Ability to clarify ambiguous problems, gather technical requirements, scope end-to-end workflows, and deliver solutions to production.
Working knowledge of Python or a similar language, SQL, APIs, enterprise data, and related systems such as ERP platforms.
Comfort working independently in an early-stage environment, communicating clearly, and identifying additional use cases with customers.
Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain operations is valuable. A strong computer science foundation is expected.
Willingness to travel internationally, primarily to Europe and Asia, approximately 15% to 30% of the time.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $175,000 to $255,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.
Responsibilities
- Identify and scope AI workflow use cases with customer teams.
- Build and ship production solutions in customer environments.
- Lead technical deployments from discovery through go-live.
- Travel to customer facilities and support adoption.
- Share customer feedback with platform engineering to improve deployments.
Qualifications
- One to five years of customer-facing full-stack or forward-deployed engineering experience.
- Strong software engineering foundation and experience shipping production systems for enterprise customers.
- Ability to clarify ambiguous problems, gather requirements, and deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Working knowledge of Python or a similar language, SQL, APIs, enterprise data, and ERP systems.
- Comfort working independently in an early-stage environment and communicating clearly.
- Exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain operations is valuable.
- Willingness to travel internationally approximately 15% to 30% of the time.